ALLIE ❤ HARTMar 31, 2017
Programming culture being caustic and argumentative is the reason we don't have more girl coders
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Inspired young girl: Wow look at this really cool and interesting programming idea I came up with!
Programmer: That idea is dumb.
Inspired young girl: Wow okay maybe I will try a pasttime that *doesn't* make me feel like shit.
Mar 31, 2017 at 4:33pmWeb
Show threadALLIE ❤ HARTMar 31, 2017
Programmers as a mainstream culture are entirely focused on idea and product and not education or conditions of labor, and that is why we can't have nice things.
Show thread🅱ℹ🅿⁉Apr 13, 2017
@u2764 this is such a dumb way to look at the world lolol
what if she legitimately came up with the worlds dumbest idea? are we supposed to coddle her just because she's a girl?
Show threadALLIE ❤ HARTApr 13, 2017
@bip Regardless of gender, you should educate and help train impassioned individuals instead of just shooting them down. This is why so many OSS projects flop.